Vending device.



No. 893,174. Q I PATENTED-JULY 14, 1908.

" w. s. LACY.

VENDING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED 8E'PT.12, 1907.

WILLIAM S. LACY, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

VENDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14, 1908.

Application filed September 12, 1907. Serial No. 392,509.

To all whom it may concern:

3e it known that I, WILLIAM S. LACY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, haveinvented a certain new and useful Vending Device, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a vending device of simple,durable and inexpensive construction, designed to contain a number ofrolls of paper, to be wholly concealed from the customers, and soarranged that in order for the customer to have access to any one ofsaid rolls of paper, he must first tear a sheet of paper over the rollholders so that the o erator may at a glance see what ones of the paperholders have been removed by the customer.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combinationof the various parts of the device, whereby the objects con-- templatedare attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in myclaims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1shows a plan view of the complete game board, the sealing paper beingplaced over part of the roll holders. Fig. 2 shows an enlarged detailsectional view through the board adjacent to the roll'holders, and-Fig.3 shows a roll holder with a roll of paper therein, detached from theboard. Fig. 4 shows a sectional view on the line 44 of Fig. 3.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the referencenumeral 10 to indicate the board body which provided throughout its facewith anumber of cylindrical openings. In each of these openings is anopen ended metal cylinder 11 having a rim 12 around its top or closedend. Contained within the cylinder 11 is a roll of paper 18, upon whichmay be laced numbers or printed matter. The rol of paper is made ofrelatively stiff aper, and when once rolled up and placed Wit 'n thecylinder, it is firmly held therein by its own resiliency againstfalling out through the open lower end of the cylinder: However, it maybe easily removed when gras ed by the customer. The roll holders are ten all concealed in their positions in the board, by means of paper 14passed over the endsv of the paper holders, and pasted to the face ofthe board. This sealing paper may if desired, be divided into individualsections for each roll holder, as

shown in Fig. 1, or it may be one single piece of aper pasted over theentire number of rol holders, as shown in Fig. 2.

It is obvious that the device may be constructed very easily and inexensively, because it is only necessary to ii rst rovide a board drilledfull of round holes, t en place therein the cylindrical roll holders,each contain'in a roll of paper properly marked or identi ed for thepurposes for which the board is to be used, and finally sealing all ofthe roll holders to the board. Obviously, the customer cannot in any waysee the rolls or papler, or the contents of the roll holders, until ehas first broken the paper seal for the particular roll holder he hasselected to play, and when he has once selected a roll holder andremoved it from the board, he cannot then replace it to make a secondselection, Without visibly indicating to the owner that the roll holderhas been removed, whether the owner was present during its originalremoval, and the breakage of the seal, or not. ()bviously, the gameboard may be used over and over again, by simply placing new paper rollswithin the holders, and asting a new sheet of paper over the board forsealing the holders in position.

The operation of my device is substantially as follows: The rolls ofpaper contained within the cylinders each is supplied with a number,consecutively arranged, each number being designed to re resent one ormore of the articles to be sol The erson desiring to make a purchase ofone of the articles, pays the full value'of the article to be purchased,

- and then with his finger nails.grasps under the rim of one of thecylinders, and tears away the paper covering and removes the cylinder. fhe should obtain certain numbers, he would be entitled to one article,or

on the other hand, if he obtains certain other numbers, he Would beentitled to more than one article, or if he desire, he could obtainother merchandise in addition to the single article which he urchased.

Having thus escribed my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters lPatent of the United States, therefor, is-

An improved vending device comprising a board provided with a series ofcylindrical openings on one side, which openings extend partiallythrough the board, a series of metal cylinders inserted in saidopenings, each cylinder having a rim arranged to overlap the board atthe sides of the opening, a roll of paper Within each cylinderfrictionally held then jointly Withdraw the cylinder and the t0 thecylinder by the resiliency of the paroll contained therein from theboard. per, and breakable sealing means pasted over Des Moines, Iowa,Aug. 27, 1907.

the board and over the heads of the cyl- WILLIAM S. LACY. 5 inders, andso arranged that the operator Witnesses:

may with his finger nails, break the sealin S. F. CHRIsTY,

means and grasp the rim of the cylinder and RALPH ORWIG.

